Genealogy Devilee » Elisabeth Catharina de Vriend (1870-????)

Birthday June 4, 1870

• The temperature on June 4, 1870 was about 16.9 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• In the year 1870: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 10 » John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
  • February 25 » Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress.
  • February 27 » The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
  • July 15 » Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
  • July 19 » Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
  • September 2 » Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan: Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1861 » William Propsting, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Tasmania († 1937)
• 1866 » Miina Sillanpää, Finnish journalist and politician († 1952)
• 1867 » Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finnish general and politician, 6th President of Finland († 1951)
• 1873 » Nictzin Dyalhis, American author (d.1942)
• 1877 » Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1957)
• 1879 » Mabel Lucie Attwell, English author and illustrator († 1964)